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now, abc 2 news at 11:00. at 11:00, it's still a very hot night. we're going wish these temperatures were -- wish we had cooler temperatures tomorrow. how high we go coming up. we've always looked for a number. now look for the words on the sunscreen. >> they say the city is forcing them out of business. should these stoers be shut down? . if you're thinking about becoming a vegetarian, this may push you to. we start with weather hont. we have a heat alert for baltimore county. >> summer comes in with a hot note. we have hot weather out there tonight. 91 in the city, 90 in frek rick. when you -- frederick.
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when you tad index n it was up with above -- well above 103. heat advisory continues across central maryland and theest earn shore. this will go through 10:00 could remember evening. we think tomorrow could be hotter than today was. i want to point you out to our abc 2 apps. there's three available to you. one is the weather app. you can get it on your droid or iphone. you can see we're into the 100s into tomorrow afternoon. with the heat, voluntary energy program will dmik soon. they hope they're not taking as much heat this year. the program pays down customers $200 to shut down their air conditions during peak usage times. last year customers got little or no notice. this year the companies had sent letters, still some customers
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aren't buying in. >> i'm in there, i'm 102 outside and my argos off then i fall out and die. >> this year they will use robo calls the night before the utility anticipates a shout down coming. abc 2 is working for you right now during this early summer heat. we've got a list of things you can do right now that will help you cool your house overnight. make sure your ceiling fans are rotating counterblock wise. turn off your computer and monitor when you're not losing them, use your microwave to cook. it takes less than and puts out less heat. you may need wait to tomorrow but replace bulbs be fluorescent. >> city cooling stations will be
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open for you tomorrow. call 311 anytime you want to find the closest cooling center to you or you can report concern about a neighbor because of heat. >> in heat like this, you need to be aware of how body is reacting. know the signs of a heat stroke. they include being hot but not sweating, vomiting or feeling smaushs -- nauseous, breathing quickly. if you notice these symptoms, you need to call 911. one of the places you might have picked up a beverage today, a small grocery store. >> a number of stores say they being unfairly targeted by city officials. chris joins us with that story. >>reporter: those small grocery store also have liquor licenses. the city wants to move them out of residential areas. >> i still an american dream
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just like my parents >>reporter: he moved from south korea to the united states with his parents in 1978 and banal a u.s. citizen a few years later. now he runs a grocery store in northwest baltimore, an area zoned for residential use. the last time the city rezoned, it was allowed to stay. the process is happening again and this time, lee and dozens of other store owners would have to get rid of their liquor license. >> if i lose my license, that will be 40% of income lost. >>reporter: or move their store to a commercial area. >> there are liquor stores already in. there they're not going turn another liquor lines in the same -- license in the same building. >>reporter: some people say this will lead to healthier neighbors. >> there is another tool to help
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achieve our goal. >>reporter: baltimore's city council prez dent say -- prez dent says the city -- precedent says the -- precedent says the city should macon sessions. >>reporter: paul lees spend 13 hours a day at his store. he doesn't plan to quit without a fight. >> pif a hard time. one of my friend had a heart attack after he received the letter. think about it. they're taking away personal property. >>reporter: there is another meeting with those grocery store owners set for next month. paul lee says if the city continues with plans, they have have to resort to legal action. new tonight, 11 people could not reach a consensuses in annapolis today.
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there will be no consensus on can see that glamabling. the -- gamble. there was a vote for the state to sell rocky gap top a resort what plan to put slots in hotel with the jack nicklaus golf course, which opened 14 years ago. but today he couldn't vote fast enough on this deal, calling rocky gap one of the biggest white elephants ever imposed on the tax pay% of your state. a state office building downtown remembered a sergeant today. the marine was killed while in afghanistan on memorial day. the 22 was supporting operation enduring freedom when he died. flags were flown at half staff in his memory. the police chief involved in the trayvon martin case is out
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of a job. a speaks well says the decision was made by the sanford florida city manager. lee submitted his res egg nation in -- resignation in april. testimony is over. the jury will decide tomorrow if jerry sandusky is guilty of sexually abusing boys. >>reporter: in the end, jerry sandusky kept silence. the defense in his child sex abuse trial resting without calling the football coach to the stand. tome decline said the defense never refuted any charges head on. >> only person who could have come forward and said this didn't happen in this particular case under these circumstances, was mr. sandusky. he chose not do it. >>reporter: there was a chance
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his testimony prouven prosecutors an opening to introduce new evidence. >> i didn't go around seeking out every young person for sexual needs that i've helped. there are many that i didn't -- i hardly had any contact with who i have helped in many, many ways. >>reporter: for nearly aweek, aledged victims took the stand, describing sexual encounters with sandusky. his former colleague described an accident he says he witnessed in alonger room that he reported to the then head coach. the defense calls a numberover character witness -- number of character witnesses, including adults. they described him as a caring father fig dwrufrment defense also brought if an expert to testify that he suffered from a personality disorder. he has pleaded not guilty to 51 charges. if convicted, he could spend the
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rest of his life in prison. closing arguments begin in the morning. jurors will be sequestered. abc 2 is working for you right now. police are warming people of a phone scam involving unpaid property taxes. someone is targeting senior zit sevens -- citizens. the blalt mother county police department is advicing to never give out personal banking information. get a call back. never mail money to people you don't know. call police if you get one of these phone calls right away. a judge wants r.g. steel sold. he's pressuring them to agree on a sale process. the agreement requires a sell of the steel mill by july 27th. creditors feel the process have been rushed and asked that
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thursday's hearing be postponed. it's one of thirst things you pack before you head to the ocean, a bottle of sun ski. over the next few weeks, you will see important changes on the labels. >>reporter: for years we've heard doctors tell us to slap on the the sunscreen to protect our skin but labels can be complicated. >> i usual lego to the number, the highest number i see on the shelf. >> it's hard because there's so many to chose. >>reporter: we've thosen sunscreen based on sff. >> broad trekt rum -- spectrum means full coverage. >>reporter: the new labels will tell you if they protect against
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both. >>reporter: bottles manufactured after june 18th will have the changes. you'll still want to check the labels because older bottles will still be on store shelves. >> i'm open to buying whatever is new and better. >>reporter: newer bottles have will have new words to describe weather the sun screen will survive a dip in the water. look for watery sis tent -- resis tent lotion. >> that means your sunscreen will stay on you. there's a 40 and 80 minute mark. >>reporter: you'll also need to make sure you're applying the right amount of tloegs your skin. use a golf ball sized amount. >> don't feel like you need toes to out the old bottles of skin screen. they are good up to three years. make chur to chex out the tex
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operation -- check out the expiration date on the back. >> the stands are open, root beer, coke mutt, help on -- coconut, lemon line. 98 at cdi today. a chansce for air report tofrment we have much more coming up. where's the beef? the price of beef is going up. abc news comes back well done.
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summertime, grilling time. if you plan to throw burgers on the grill, be ready to open your wallet. >> have you noticed how high beef prices have climbed lately?
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>>reporter: the cost of your fourth of july cookout is the shooting up like a fire cracker this year because the price of ground beef has had a record high of $3 a point nationwide. just a couple of years ago it was $150 a pound, half the -- $1.50 a pound. you may know tis there's no cheap ground brief anymore. if you want premium cuts, be prepared to pay 4 or $5 a pound. there are three reasons for this year's price hike, one, fewer cattle due the drought. ranchers now raise fewer cattle. two,less pink slime, the fill their many schools and supermarkets use. finely, more beef exports to other countries. with the dollar strong compared
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to most of the world's currency, ranchers often make more money exporting beef to other countries n addition, the ban on u.s. beef after the mad cow scare has expire police department on many countries, so they are buying u.s. beef again. for more reports go to our web page. i'm john matarese. in the news tonight, it's pizza versus big government. you see all the call reap counts on the -- calorie counts on the restaurant man yee but the problem is how you can order feet sa. if this health law goes through, each will need to be displayed. folks at this restaurant say it's too much but some health experts say listed calories help people make better choices. >> now we're getting a third of our calories from eating at restaurants, so it's a big part
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of our diet and a problematic part. >> papa john's is joining dominos to fight this regulation. >> it's pizza. if you want a good ice creme bar to cool you off, hopefully it's not the three on the team. the company had ail fact rib shout down. -- factory shut down. this is going cheer you up. we had our favorite snow screen cone stands growing up. >> we want back to them tonight. >>reporter: yes, you could say it was hot today but if you were a kid, would you care? aisle tell you what, this --
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i'll tell you what, this guy seems like he has the right idea on how to stay cool. >> you can stay cool if you get in the water. >>reporter: drive throughout city and you will find a few places, some new, some who have been around for a little while. >> beef, sausages --. >>reporter: -- and one who seems like they have been in baltimore forever. >> since 1971. my father being a minister, he moved up here and brought this property for the church. >>reporter: what do they all have in common? that good old baltimore snow ball. >> there's one special part of the snow ball experience. everybody can testify to this.
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they've done heard of egg custard. that's the flavor you can only get in the summer. there's no egg cast art -- custard but know ball flavor. when the snow ball season comes, they come ask for eggnog. they don't know what they want but they've got an idea. >>reporter: so tomorrow, if you can, find a pool to stay cool or just get a snow ball, maybe with custard. >>reporter: peel o'neal -- pete o'neal, abc news. when you cool down with the snow ball, you get the marshmallow on the top or middle? join the conversation on our facebook page.
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now, maryland's most powerful doppler radar and the forecast most accurate. >> as long as it's cold and icy, last the main thing. 80 degree now. a little misleading because the humidity level is way up there. unless your on the water's edge or perhaps watching us from an isolated cooler spot, you're feeing the heat. two degrees off the record from 1931. in fact, tomorrow we've got a chance to break a very old record. tomorrow the record is 100 as well. tomorrow we may get there. humidity levels continue to rise tonight. dew point numbers measure the total moisture in the air. you're at 100% humidity. tonight we're around 70. anything over 70 is oppressive. 77 or 78 is the highest you'll ever see it. temperature wise now low 80s. some 7 #0s in the high country
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to the west. they've cooled off in areas west of d.c.. still feeling like mid-90s downtown. the pavement holds the heel. even out in frederick, 97 now. did you catch this today? our tall crane ship setting down the bay bridge. we were able to get a time lapse around 2:30 this afternoon. just to show the perspective, just amazing to me. the tops of those cranes awfully close and taller hand the bay bridge spans. we know how huge those are. otherwise, we were talking about heat all day. it's staying warm tonight. a pop-up shower or storm, it's possible. i don't think we will see anything overnight. high pressure cell kind of means sinking air.
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it's a tropical cell. this flow will continue to pump the heat up. you can also track the weather with our news on weather app. text wmar to 46988. let's get back into it here. you can see the highs today, near 100 at bwi. we're likely to tie record tomorrow. cold front in the march. big storms over wisconsin today and tonight. this is relief but it doesn't get here until late friday evening. overnight mostly clear. hotter tomorrow with the humidity. 77 tomorrow night. the outlook here over the next seven d friday. still a bit of a question mark. we could be in the mid-90s
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friday. better relief saturday, sunday, and monday. summer 2012 starts out feeling like the middle of the summer. >> i've got an idea, every thursday we go to a different snow ball stan. coming up, if you're single and looking your perfect match, the secret could be in your dog. first, here's a look what the you'll see next. coming up on night line, we continue the coverage of the extreme heat wave plus from sports leagues to arts and crafts, how many of america's prisoners are serving life in lick chur rib. -- huks issue rib. the
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